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accessary

American  
[ak-ses-uh-ree] / ækˈsɛs ə ri /

noun

accessaries plural
  1. accessory.


accessary British  
/ əkˈsɛsərɪ /

noun

  1. law a less common spelling of accessory

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Another popular accessary was face jewelry around the nose and cheekbones.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2021

“An accessary, both before and after the fact,” he repeated to himself.

From Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion by Mitford, Bertram

After sagely considering the matter, Toinon made up her mind that if she did not interfere, she might become in some sort an accessary to a tragedy.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis

It slew itself; the verdict on the view Do quit the dead, and me not accessary.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote

I, and other English, immediately went in all haste to the king, acquainting him with what had happened, lest, if the Dutch had intended any treachery, he might have suspected us as being accessary.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

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